Images of the Day

Selected by deputy picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons

THE WAR DRAGS ON: An injured man is treated at a medical point in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria. The government has launched a new offensive against rebels in the area. Photograph: Bassam Khabieh/Reuters

MAIDAN MEMORIES: Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (second right) and prime minister Volodymyr Groysman (second left) at a service in memory of those killed during the pro-western Maidan protests in 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Photograph: Mikhail Palinchak/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters

JALALABAD BLAST: Afghan men carry an injured man after a blast in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Photograph: Parwiz/Reuters

PAYING RESPECTS: Members of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change political party pay their respects around the coffin of late opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who died last week after a battle with cancer, during his funeral at his rural village of Humanikwa. Photograph: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images

WAVING GOODBYE: Mourners and supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change wave goodbye to late Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai during his funeral at his rural village of Humanikwa. Photograph: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images

TEDDY BEAR HOSPITAL: Aidan Cotter of Glasheen Boys NS (also known as Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal) explains to UCC medical student Thomas Twohill how his teddybear broke his leg. The two met at the Teddy Bear Hospital, run by the UCC Medical Society (MedSoc), which opens annually as a community outreach activity and aims to reduce the fear many children have around doctors. Photograph: Clare Keogh

COOL DUDE: At the launch of Coolest Projects 2018 was coder Peter Reid (age 11), of Dublin. The seventh annual digital tech showcase will take place in the RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin, on Saturday, May 26th next. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography

LOST CHILDREN: Barnardos chief executive Fergus Finlay with scoliosis activist Claire Cahill at the launch of the new Lost Children campaign. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

AIRBORNE: Miroslav Dvorak of the Czech Republic jumps during the Nordic Combined Individual Gunderson Large Hill Ski Jumping competition round on day 11 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images

ANCIENT CONFLICT: A Palestinian girl sits on a couch after Israeli troops destroyed a Palestinian property in the village of Al-Eizariya, in the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters